International: Dark & Unrewarding Future

A team of U.S. explainers waited patiently in Munsan last week, armed
with tape recordings, photographs and dossiers of 22 young Americans
who refuse to come home. Day after day the U.N. explainers sent word
that they would meet six Americans, the lone Briton and 30 South
Koreans. But the prisoners refused to come out of their Communist
compounds.

As the Christmas week deadline for explanations drew near, U.S. officers
gave up hope of seeing the Americans, and conceded that they had little
chance of getting any back anyway. Wide-meshed barbed wire, and the
ease with which the 22 can approach the...